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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 2: And the Stony correspond to Murray Olds is with us

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Speaker 2: this afternoon. Hi Murray, very good afternoon, Jack. So Sydney

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Speaker 2: has an application by the police to stop to pro

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Speaker 2: Palestine in marches this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, starts in about twenty one minutes from now. The

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Supreme Court is meeting this afternoon special

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Speaker 1: session to hear this application from New South Wales Police.

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Speaker 1: There's an outfit called the Palestine's Action Group. It's held

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Speaker 1: rallies every weekend in the last in the last twelve months,

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Speaker 1: fifty one weeks in fact. But police say have a

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Speaker 1: rally this weekend, this Sunday and then on the Monday,

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Speaker 1: which is the anniversary of the Hummas attack in Israel.

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Speaker 1: Simply too great risk, the police say, the public safety,

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Speaker 1: particularly on the Monday. It's a long weekend here coming up.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Daylight Saving Kitchen as well, so Monday's

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Speaker 1: a holiday.

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Speaker 3: Monday.

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Speaker 1: Police do not want to have every single police officer

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Speaker 1: from the North Coast down to the South Coast in

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Speaker 1: Sydney trying to you know, kick the peace. They had

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand people on the street Jack in Sydney last Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So these are not small protests. One woman arrested for

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Speaker 1: waving Hesbala flag. Palestinian supporters have already said, don't matter

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Speaker 1: what the Supreme Court's got to say.

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Speaker 3: We're going to run march and rally anyway. On Monday.

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Speaker 1: They're planning a candle lit vigil, no flag waving, no

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Speaker 1: nasty speeches and all that sort of stuff. But in

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Speaker 1: any event, one thirty we understand there was to be

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Speaker 1: a snap protest march in the city in the same

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Speaker 1: precinct as a Supreme Court. So look, it's a pretty

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Speaker 1: fragile situation.

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Speaker 3: Here in town.

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Speaker 1: There's you know, elevated feelings on both sides. If you

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Speaker 1: and police just want to try and maybe just put

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Speaker 1: a dampner on it for this weekend, can I see

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Speaker 1: they go?

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Speaker 2: Can I suggest that's not going to work. It seems

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Speaker 2: seems to me to me like even if they try,

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Speaker 2: are they really going to be able to stop these

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Speaker 2: protests from going ahead. And if these protests trying to

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Speaker 2: go ahead, you can have clashes between police and protests.

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Speaker 2: It seems like, I don't know, trying to maybe work

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Speaker 2: with them is going to be a better option if

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Speaker 2: if you know, if having decorum and stability in public

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Speaker 2: as the goal, well, you know, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, let's just wait and see you which way the

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Speaker 3: mop flops.

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Speaker 1: Because the Supreme Court has got under a bit of pressure,

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Speaker 1: it's got to make a decision, well, either today or

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Speaker 1: tomorrow because this Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sunday, Monday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know that there are people arguing for

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Speaker 1: your side of things.

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Speaker 3: You know, let them protest peacefully.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, it's not necessarily even a question of

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Speaker 2: whether you agree with the protesters or not. It's not

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Speaker 2: a question about sides. It's just a question of whether

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Speaker 2: or not trying to ban a protest is a good

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Speaker 2: way of stopping people from coming out onto the streets.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm not sure that it is necessarily.

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Speaker 1: If you go back about forty years and there was

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Speaker 1: a forty five fifty years now and a government minister

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Speaker 1: was arrested for leading an anti Vietnam war protest. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: five hundred Australian soldiers were killed in Vietnam and a

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Speaker 1: minister of the day, the Minister of the Crown, was arrested.

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Speaker 1: So look what's happened before I dare say eleven again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, Murray, speaking of the situation in the Middle East,

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Speaker 2: numerous Australians are desperately trying to get out of Lebanon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, and we understand there are two flights

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Speaker 1: that have been arranged in the last little while for

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Speaker 1: Australians out of air route. Amazingly that international airport is

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Speaker 1: still working, but seats are at a premium. As you

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Speaker 1: might expect, Around fifteen thousand Australians are in Lebanon. Many

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Speaker 1: Australian citizens have retired there, and Penny Wong, the Foreign Minister,

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Speaker 1: is saying there at least seventeen hundred of those Australians

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Speaker 1: in Lebanon have registered with the government indicating I would

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Speaker 1: like to get out of possible. I say, a few

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Speaker 1: dozen seats have been secured on a commercial flight or

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Speaker 1: two that's already left Lebanon, but we understand two more

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Speaker 1: flights now have been arranged in the last well in

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Speaker 1: the last three or four hours. So let's just wait

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Speaker 1: and see how many people can get out if you

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Speaker 1: want to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because no land borders really that can cross, right,

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Speaker 2: You've got serious, that's right. And then Israel so yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're stuck if you can't get out on one of

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Speaker 2: those flights. Changes. Coming to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Marri.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a scheme that it was established and

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Speaker 1: I looked at it. I wasn't sure exactly how long

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Speaker 1: this has been here. It's been around since twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: The full rollout happened in twenty twenty and basically this

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Speaker 1: provides for a range of services for people living with

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Speaker 1: disabilities here in Australia. The trouble is it's been so

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Speaker 1: popular the government has now tried to rein it in.

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Speaker 1: If it wasn't rained in, they were looking at one

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Speaker 1: hundred one hundred billion dollars I beg your pardon a

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Speaker 1: year by twenty thirty five, completely unsustainable, more and education,

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Speaker 1: health from the bloody defense budget. So what they've done

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Speaker 1: as of today there are new rules governing what the

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Speaker 1: National Disability Insurance Scheme will pay for the government's been

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Speaker 1: under pressure, of course, to array defending their parliamentary inquiries.

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Speaker 1: Many of them have heard some pretty awful stories about

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Speaker 1: basically ripoffs, how some of the cash has been spent.

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Speaker 1: There have been all these shonky therapies involving crystals, cuddle,

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Speaker 1: something called cuddle therapy. I need a bit of that,

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Speaker 1: the sound therapy, aroma therapy, tarot cards, clairvoyance.

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Speaker 3: So that's all out. The NDIS won't be paying for.

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Speaker 1: Groceries or holidays or homeschooling. The systems being streamlined down

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Speaker 1: to thirty six categories, and those with recognized disabilities will

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Speaker 1: continue to get all the support they need, for example,

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Speaker 1: speech therapy or wound care. If you need continence therapy

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Speaker 1: at home, that's all covered. Spinal cord injury, brain injury,

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Speaker 1: that's covered too.

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Speaker 3: What they're trying to do is get rid of all

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Speaker 3: the sharks.

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Speaker 1: Who I mean there was one guy apparently he was

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Speaker 1: billing a million dollars a month and there were Noah,

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Speaker 1: larm bells ringing.

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Speaker 2: That's insane, surely not. He was offering more than cuddle therapy.

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Speaker 3: There was Well are you in hope? So I hope

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Speaker 3: you got your shopping down as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, hey, thanks to the Murray appreciate it as always.

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Speaker 2: Burry Olds are Australian correspondent. What did I say? Seventy

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Speaker 2: three percent of houses in this one region, according to

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Speaker 2: the latest census data, still have land lines. So we're

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Speaker 2: only only a third of New Zealand household of landlines

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Speaker 2: according to the census, but seventy three percent in this region.

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Speaker 2: It is, of course the Tannam Islands, but you knew that.

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